Title of the Book: Baseball Saved Us
Author Name: Ken Mochizuki
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Date of Publication:1993
Rating: 1-5 Stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The book I read was “Baseball Saved Us “ by Ken Mochizuki. This book was pretty interesting and
had a cool perspective. The perspective used was a Japanese-American boy who was moved to the
Detainment Camps during WWII in America. One day his father decided to make a baseball field.
Soon everyone started helping out and they had a baseball field. The boy played baseball but was
short so he wasn’t good. He ends up winning a game-winning ball because the man in the guard
tower was looking at him and he wanted to impress him. He then came back home where people
didn’t like him. He started playing baseball again and was called bad words like “Jap” from the crowd
who didn’t like him. He ends up winning a huge game-winning homer to win the game.
There is a lesson you can learn from the story's plot. What you look like doesn’t make you
worse or better than anybody else. It only matters how hard you work to meet your goals. The
Japanese boy was called Jap and other bad words but still he performed great and maybe even
better than others.
The color scheme was just brown and kind of looked dirty. It showed the emotion
of feeling dirty because you're being detained in a dirty camp. It also shows that gritty feeling of
being in the desert with the sandstorms and other terrible weather.
If I had to rate this book I would rate it a 4.5 out of 5. This is because its a pretty unusual
perspective with the drawing and being very interesting, bringing out a lot of emotion of what it would
be like to be in that dark situation and making the best out of it. One downside was that it was too
short.
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